Last fall we purchased two tickets for Coppelia, the spring production of the Minnesota Ballet. at the silent auction that is an annual fundraiser for the biggest kidlets’ school.  Although my husband is NOT a ballet appreciator, which is such a shame since we really do have a…

She spent the better part of an hour late Saturday afternoon sliding down the last icy patch in the yard (rapidly disappearing with the sixty degree temperatures) singing in a boisterous, pirate voice that she was Pirate Girl, Queen of the Sea.  It was such a contrast to her little…